Pvt. Willard Rose

Parents: Henry & Dara Rose

Home: Lee City, Kentucky

Siblings: 3 brothers, 1 sister

Home: Montgomery County, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 15 March 1941 - Fort Thomas, Newport, Kentucky

Training:

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

     - Battle of Luzon

     - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

    9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - 100 POWs packed into each car
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands:

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan

Hell Ship:

    -Nagato Maru

        Sailed: Manila - 7 November 1942

        Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 11 November 1942

        Sailed: Takao - 14 November 1942

        Arrived: Pescadores Islands - same day

        Sailed: Pescadores Islands - 16 November 1942

        Arrived: Kelung Island - same day

        Sailed: Unknown

        Arrived: Moji, Japan - 24 November 1942

Japan:

    - Mitsushima POW Camp

        - Work: stevedores

Liberated:

    September 1945

Promoted: Corporal

Discharged: 6 July 1946

Died: 8 April 1992

Buried: Highland Memorial Cemetery - Miamisburg, Ohio

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